Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

By far the best proof is experience.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.