Hope Is The Second Soul Of The

Character - In Things Great And Small - Is Indicated When A Man (or Person) Pursues With Sustained Follow-through What He Feels Himself Capable Of Doing.

All That Is Transitory Is But A Metaphor.

Man's Highest Merit Always Is, As Much As Possible, To Rule External Circumstances And As Little As Possible To Let Himself Be Ruled By Them.

What I Possess I Would Gladly Retain. Change Amuses The Mind, Yet Scarcely Profits.

Painting Predicates What Man Wants To See, And What Man Ought To See, Not What He Ordinarily Sees.