A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.
All of one’s life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian’s drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.