There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.