Good And Bad Men Are

To Admire On Principle Is The Only Way To Imitate Without Loss Of Originality.

Nothing Is As Contagious As Enthusiasm. It Is The Real Allegory Of The Myth Of Orpheus; It Moves Stones, And Charms Brutes. It Is The Genius Of Sincerity, And Truth Accomplishes No Victories Without It.

In Your Intercourse With Sects, The Sublime And Abstruse Doctrines Of Christian Belief Belong To The Church; But The Faith Of The Individual, Centred In His Heart, Is, Or May Be, Collateral To Them. Faith Is Subjective.

Architecture Exhibits The Greatest Extent Of The Difference From Nature Which May Exist In Works Of Art. It Involves All The Powers Of Design, And Is Sculpture And Painting Inclusively. It Shows The Greatness Of Man, And Should At The Same Time Teach Him Humility.

A Nation To Be Great Ought To Be Compressed In Its Increment By Nations More Civilized Than Itself.