"Faults that are rich are fair...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.”

“A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.”

“Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!”

“None but great men are capable of having great flaws.”

“Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.”

“A man's errors are what make him amiable.”

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

“I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.”

“...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.”