Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.