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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.
There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge
Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.