All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Whatever you can, count.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.