The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.