Acorns were good until bread was found.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Knowledge is power.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.