No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

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

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.