The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
If you can talk about it, why paint it?
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.