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.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.