There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.