To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Painting is silent poetry.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.