Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.