“Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!”

“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.”

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”

“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.”

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”