Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

That which builds is better than that which is built.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.