People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

Art is a jealous mistress.