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.

There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.