The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

States are great engines moving slowly.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.