Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.
Savage is he who saves himself.
Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.
O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.