When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Drawing is the true test of art.
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.