Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

By far the best proof is experience.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.