She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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.