As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.