Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
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.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.