Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.