You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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

Be an opener of doors

The true ship is the ship builder.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.