Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

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.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.