Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
A man can do all things if he will.
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.