All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

There is no wealth but life.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.