Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.