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.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.