It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.