Washington Allston Quote

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.


Lectures on Art, and Poems (ed. Scholarly Pub Office Univ of, 1850)


Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.