Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.