It is natural to die as to be born.
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
Science is but an image of the truth.