There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy—to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before—were much more certain.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
