If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.