Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.