Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.