"It is a thing that ever accompanies great parts, that those that have them are not soon satisfied."

"For there is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."

"The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."

"The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of n…"