"Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up"

"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."

"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."

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong."

"Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty."

"Civilization is the making of civil persons."

"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

"To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy."

"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."

"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."

"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."

"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish"

"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

"Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."

"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."

"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."

"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."

"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."

"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."

"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."

"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."

"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."

"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."