excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . .Passion and expression are beauty itself.

What is the Divine Spirit? Is the Holy Ghost any other than an Intellectual fountain?

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.