Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.