What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.