“The eye altering, alters all.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

“But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay.”

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

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

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”