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.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.