Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Science is but an image of the truth.