It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.