Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.