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.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I believe in deeply ordered chaos