The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.