I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.