All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.