When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

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.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.