Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.