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.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

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