Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

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.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.