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

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.