There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.