Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.