But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.