You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

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.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.