A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

Reading maketh a full man.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.