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

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.