Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly.

Let us walk with the light of love on the path toward peace.

Keep to your precious honor. Rather die than sully it. There is only honor in a man's life and the rest is meaningless gibberish.

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.