Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature /were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

The counterfeit and counterpart of nature are reproduced in art.

Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind