"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

I am doubting what to do.

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.