All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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.