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

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.