The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

We are taught words, not ideas.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.