Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.