Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.