The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.