I know well that happiness is in little things.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.