Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.