If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

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

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.