One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

Acorns were good until bread was found.