Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.