If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

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

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.