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— William Gilmore Simms"There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object."
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Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.
— Philip Massinger
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My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
— Joaquin Sorolla
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