Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?