The best work never was and never will be done for money.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.