In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange…

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree - not of a cloud.

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer i…

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

[He's] the biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made.

Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.