I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.