“Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.”

“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists”

“All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.”

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”

“The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit.”

“I have a dog of Blenheim birth,With fine long ears and full of mirth;And sometimes, running o'er the plain,He tumbles on his nose:But quickly jumping up again,Like lightning on he goes!”