Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.