Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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!

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.