Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.