Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Revolutions go not backward.