There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.