The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.