It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.