Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.