Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

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

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.