I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
The more we do, the more we can do.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."