It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

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.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.