If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

All will come out in the washing.

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.