It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.