If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.
Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.