You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

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

Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.