The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Riches are for spending.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.