Art Takes Nature As Its Model.

Plato Is My Friend, But Truth Is A Better Friend.

If Purpose, Then, Is Inherent In Art, So Is It In Nature Also. The Best Illustration Is The Case Of A Man Being His Own Physician, For Nature Is Like That - Agent And Patient At Once.

Every Virtue Is A Mean Between Two Extremes, Each Of Which Is A Vice.

Suffering Becomes Beautiful When Anyone Bears Great Calamities With Cheerfulness, Not Through Insensibility But Through Greatness Of Mind.

No Great Mind Has Ever Existed Without A Touch Of Madness.