Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.