“We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.”

“The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

“We are what we think about all day long.”