Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.