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.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

The eye is the best of artists.