“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”

“What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.”

“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.”

“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”