Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible..... There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.