Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Time is the author of authors.

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

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.