It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

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