Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.