Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

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

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.