The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.