Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.