At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

The last act crowns the play.

Architecture is the work of nations

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.