Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Knowledge is power.
What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.