If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.