I have ever observed, that colonnades and avenues of trees of a moderate length were, without comparison, far grander than when they were suffered to run to immense distances.

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods.

Designs that are vast only by their dimensions are always the sign of a common and low imagination.

No work of art can be great, but as it deceives; to be otherwise is the prerogative of nature only.

A good eye will fix the medium betwixt an excessive length or height (for the same objection lies against both), and a short or broken quantity: and perhaps it might be ascertained to a tolerable degree of exactness, if it was my purpose to descend far into the particulars of any art.
SECTION XI.
INFINITY IN PLEASING OBJECTS.
Infinity, though of another kind, causes much of our pleasure in agreeable, as well as of our delight in sublime images.