“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.