Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.