My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.