It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind

Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Politics have no relation to morals.

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.