Truths From Nature
We must take as many as we can, but the difficulty is that it is often so hard to know what the truths of nature are.
Accuracy
After having spent years striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in discovering when and how to be inaccurate.
Herbert Spencer
He is like nature to Fuseli—he puts me out.
Shade Colour and Reputation
When a thing is near and in light, colour and form are important; when far and in shadow, they are unimportant. Form and colour are like reputations which when they become shady are much of a muchness.