Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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

States, as great engines, move slowly.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.