When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

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

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.