Taste is improved by cultivation.

- Robert Aris Willmott

It is the empiric who never fails.

- Robert Aris Willmott

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

- Robert Aris Willmott

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

- Robert Aris Willmott

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

- Robert Aris Willmott

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a …

- Robert Aris Willmott

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

- Robert Aris Willmott

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

- Robert Aris Willmott

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

- Robert Aris Willmott