There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade...

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

He's just a flash in the pants.

Divorce is an expensive punishment love gets when it fails

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

You want everyone to succeed in your family.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.