It is always our inabilities that vex us.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.