Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
Painting is silent poetry.
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.