Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.