One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.