“A dead body revenges not injuries.”

“Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”

“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”

“The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.”

“What the hammer? What the Chains?In what furnace was thy brain?Where the anvil? What dread grasp?Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”

“Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd”

“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”