Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.