Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!