Joshua Reynolds

“If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.”

“The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.”

“The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.”

“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.”