"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."

"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."