Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.