A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.