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

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

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.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.