I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
People fail forward to success.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.