O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
A good life is a main argument.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.