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

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

"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."

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

"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."

"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."

"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."