All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.