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.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.