Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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