When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.