Man ought to learn of nature, but not to imitate nature.

His work is, through the forms that Nature gives him, to express the idea or feeling that is in him.

That is far more likely to produce things in harmony with nature, than the attempt to imitate nature upon the small human scale." "You are too much of a philosopher for me!" said Miss Graeme.

"I daresay you are quite right, but I have never read anything about art, and cannot follow you." "You have probably read as much as I have.

I am only talking out of what necessity, the necessity for understanding things, has made me think.