To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.