"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."
"You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer."
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Source: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.218
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