It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
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.