“Nature is the best school of art.”

Expressing his belief that artists should learn directly from the natural world · Essay, Thoughts on Beauty and Art

• Art
• Learning
• Nature

“Anglo-Saxon has not been cultivated into a better form, but has been corrupted for the worse, since King Alfred's days.”

Arguing that the development of standard English had involved a loss rather than an improvement in the language · Se Gefylsta

• Change
• History
• Language

“The Dorset dialect is a broad and bold shape of the English language, as the Doric was of the Greek.”

Defending Dorset speech as a rich and legitimate form of English rather than a corrupted one · A Dissertation on the Dorset Dialect of the English Language

• Culture
• Identity
• Language