Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius among those who study nature. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who makes too much or too little of himself has a false measure for everything.

"About Fuseli: "...the most original genius I know. Nothing but energy, profusion and calm! The wildness of the warrior — and the feeling of supreme sublimity! … His spirits are storm wind, his ministers flames of fire! He goes upon the wings of the wind. His laughter is the mockery of hell and his love — a deadly lightning-flash.

You may tell a man, thou art a fiend, but not, your nose wants blowing. To him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.