The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

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

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.