Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

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

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.