God's first creature, which was light.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.