If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.