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

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

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

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.