If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.