No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

There is no solitude in nature.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.