Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.