Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Truth is a naked and open daylight

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.