The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
Knowledge is Life with wings
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.