Nothing Is Denied To Well-directed Labor.

It Is Vain For Painters... To Endeavour To Invent Without Materials On Which The Mind May Work.

He Who Resolves Never To Ransack Any Mind But His Own, Will Be Soon Reduced, From Mere Barrenness, To The Poorest Of All Imitations; He Will Be Obliged To Imitate Himself, And To Repeat What He Has Before Often Repeated.

Words Should Be Employed As The Means, Not The End; Language Is The Instrument, Conviction Is The Work.

Excellence Is Never Granted To Man, But As The Reward Of Labour.

All The Gestures Of Children Are Graceful; The Reign Of Distortion And Unnatural Attitudes Commences With The Introduction Of The Dancing Master.