Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.