Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures - John Ruskin

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

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

I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.