There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

No day is without its innocent hope.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.