Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands ...

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is its ...

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.