Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.