The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.