The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

To know truly is to know by causes.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.