“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
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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.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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.
