I Have Conversed With The Spiritual Sun.

Error Is Created; Truth Is Eternal.

Silent As Despairing Love, And Strong As Jealousy.

O Why Was I Born With A Different Face? Why Was I Not Born Like The Rest Of My Race?

He Who Pretends To Be Either Painter Or Engraver Without Being A Master Of Drawing Is An Imposter.

Commerce Is So Far From Being Beneficial To Arts, Or To Empire, That It Is Destructive Of Both, As All Their History Shows, For The Above Reason Of Individual Merit Being Its Great Hatred. Empires Flourish Till They Become Commercial, And Then They Are Scattered Abroad To The Four Winds.