"When I am on my own and quiet, the landscape tells you a great deal and Turner and Cotman talk to me from the clouds."

"I willingly accept Cassandra's fate, To speak the truth, although believ'd too late."

"More rich, more noble I will ever hold The Muse's laurel, than a crown of gold."

"What ever happy region is thy place, Cease thy celestial song a little space; (Thou wilt have time enough for hymns d…"

"We are Diana’s virgin train, Descended of no mortal strain: Our bows and arrows are our goods, Our palaces the lofty …"

"Art she had none, yet wanted none: For Nature did that want supply."

"The bloody wolf, the wolf does not pursue; The boar, though fierce, his tusk will not embrue In his own kind, Bears, …"

"Some one asked Opie by what wonderful process he mixed his colours. "I mix them with my brains, sir," was his reply. …"

"When Carmella gave me the present of a hearing trumpet she may have foreseen some of the consequences. (first line)"

"Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skele…"