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

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He should indeed require no more of you--than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.