We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.