Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.