A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.