If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.