Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.