Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
Nature never breaks her own laws.
They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words....
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.