Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.