Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.