Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.