Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one.
Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.
It is a great art to know how to sell wind