Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Art is man added to Nature.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.