I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.