“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.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“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.”

“O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

“Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.”

“Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own?" We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”