“And he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman.”

"I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me, they have always been matters of riddle and admiration."

"The horseman, that dominant spirit... commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, who is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head."

"The old country wives, however, who are the best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means; and it is a favorite story often told about the neighborhood 'round the winter evening fire."

—Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"ICHABOD AND THE HORSEMAN" 18 x24 in., oil on wooden panel