Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.