The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

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

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

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