We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
After all, the true seeing is within.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.