All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.