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.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

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