The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.