Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.