The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.