The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.