Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Buildings have been made because of man.
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.
. . . it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.
Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is a glorious, resurrected being. He has the capacity to communicate love that is so powerful, so overwhelming as to surpass the capacity of the human tongue to express adequately. He gave His life to break the bonds of death. His Atonement made fully active the plan of happiness of His Father in Heaven.
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.