Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 444.
The Faber Book of Aphorisms
“Lists simplify, clarify, edify.”
Source: The Project 50 (Re-Inventing Work Series) (1999), p. 164.
Coriolanus, Act iii, scene 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Whoe'er he be, none more than human deem,
And each may speak as good to him doth seem.”
Nessuno e piu ch' un uom, sia chi si vuole:
Ognun puo dire a suo modo parole.
XVII, 22
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.”
Inscription for a Figure representing the God of Love. See Genuine Works. (1732) I. 129. Version of a Greek couplet from the Greek Anthology.
“Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.”
as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [41]
Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922
Written at an Inn at Henley (1758), st. 6. Compare: " From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,— Path, motive, guide, original, and end", Samuel Johnson, Motto to the Rambler, No. 7
The Other World (1657)
Source: Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), Persecution and the Art of Writing, p. 36
