...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.