If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.