Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.