The Style Of An Author

Everything Is Hard Before It Is Easy.

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent. I Therefore Show You Only The Best Works; And When You Are Grounded In These, You Will Have A Standard For The Rest, Which You Will Know How To Value, Without Overrating Them.

In Every Artist There Is A Touch Of Audacity Without Which No Talent Is Conceivable.

It Matters Little Whether A Man Be Mathematically Or Philologically Or Artistically Cultivated, So He Be But Cultivated.

Once You Have Missed The First Buttonhole, You'll Never Manage To Button Up.