Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.