No Picture Can Be Good

Nature Is Painting For Us, Day After Day, Pictures Of Infinite Beauty.

I Believe That The Sight Is A More Important Thing Than The Drawing.

Civilization Is The Making Of Civil Persons.

Wise Laws And Just Restraints Are To A Noble Nation Not Chains, But Chains Of Mail, -- Strength And Defense, Though Something Of An Incumbrance.

Perfect Taste Is The Faculty Of Receiving The Greatest Possible Pleasure From Those Material Sources Which Are Attractive To Oar Moral Nature In Its Purity And Perfection.