Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.