There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.