I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

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

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Labor is God's education.

All life is an experiment.

The surest poison is time.