Morality does not depend on religion.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.