An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

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