Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.