My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

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

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

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.