No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.