He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
The things you do today that you don’t have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
No nation is wise enough to rule another.
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
Smell is a fallen angel.
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.
We should respect all people.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.