Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.