As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.