If the world does not please you, you can change it.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

A young mistress is better than an old master.

Ignorance is not an extension of time