It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

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.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.