Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.