It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

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

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.