The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.