No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.