The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.