A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.