The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.