We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.