Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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.