You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.