God's first creature, which was light.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Science is but an image of the truth.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of co...
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority...
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.