But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.