Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.