I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

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

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.