When It Is Darkest, We

Nothing Astonishes Men So Much As Common Sense And Plain Dealing.

The First Point Of Courtesy Must Always Be Truth.

Picture And Sculpture Are The Celebrations And Festivities Of Form.

Every Man Supposes Himself Not To Be Fully Understood Or Appreciated.

Nor Has Science Sufficient Humanity, So Long As The Naturalist Overlooks The Wonderful Congruity Which Subsists Between Man And The World; Of Which He Is Lord, Not Because He Is The Most Subtile Inhabitant, But Because He Is Its Head And Heart, And Finds Something Of Himself In Every Great And Small Thing, In Every Mountain Stratum, In Every New Law Of Color, Fact Of Astronomy, Or Atmospheric Influence Which Observation Or Analysis Lay Open.