Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.