For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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