Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.