No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.