People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.