It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

A book worth reading is worth buying.