No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

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

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.