All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Knowledge is power.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.