Knowledge is power.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."