If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
Beauty without expression is boring.
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.