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.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

There is no wealth but life.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.