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

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

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