As ability goes, so goes our fortune.
A person can do anything if they only will it strongly enough.
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.
Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.