We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

Each of us lives in two realms, the "within" and the "without." The within of our lives is somehow found in the realm of ends, the without in the realm of means.