Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.