"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify."

"Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!"

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering for a great while at the eaves of an old church."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."