Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.