Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

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

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.