I would save you from a fall of position so irretrievable.

Think how many mortifications you will be subjected to; how many young men will visit at your house,--and how many young wives will as carefully avoid it." "I can choose my own career, to which commonplace society is not essential.

I can owe the respect of the world to my art, and not to the accidents of birth and fortune." "That is, you still persist in your second folly,--the absurd ambition of daubing canvas.

Heaven forbid I should say anything against the laudable industry of one who follows such a profession for the sake of subsistence; but with means and connections that will raise you in life, why voluntarily sink into a mere artist?
As an accomplishment in leisure moments, it is all very well in its way; but as the occupation of existence, it is a frenzy." "Artists have been the friends of princes." "Very rarely so, I fancy, in sober England.

There in the great centre of political aristocracy, what men respect is the practical, not the ideal.
Just suffer me to draw two pictures of my own.