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

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.