Benjamin Robert HaydonThinkers

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernatural.v when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. Ail astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.