We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.