Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

By indignities men come to dignities.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.