There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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

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.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.