The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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