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

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.