Knowledge is the only elegance.
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.
No man can have society upon his own terms.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.