Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

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.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

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