Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.