The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.