No day is without its innocent hope.
Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.