No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

The eye is easily frightened.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."