Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

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

A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.