God's first creature, which was light.
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.