He threatens many that hath injured one.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

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.