The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce. Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man. Thus in art, does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.