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

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.

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!

Death always feels far away from life, until it isn’t.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.