“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” – Walt Whitman

“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” – Henry…

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!” – Daniel Webster