Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.