Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

All will come out in the washing.