It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as 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.

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

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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.