💬 Quotes

"A carpet is a carpet, of course, to people who only look at the outside of things; but a magic carpet is quite another pair of shoes."

"The Phoenix had a way of saying things that made you feel as if you were about ten times as clever as you really were."

"It is a very good thing to sometimes let your thoughts run wild and free, and just sit back and watch where they take you."

"We are like the children who buy a new toy, play with it for five minutes, and then throw it up against the wall to see what it looks like broken."

"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need: a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you."

"We are not contented with the lot we have, because we are so anxious about what we are going to have."

"We are creatures of habit, and it is astonishing how soon a place ceases to be strange to us if we only stay in it long enough."

"There is no man so friendless but that what he can find a worse enemy than himself if he looks around him."

"I like to be free; I'm not sure that I care to take upon myself the burden of such a debt."

"The house was strange... a dark, narrow alley with a little brick house at the end: it was a kind of metaphoric statement of what she was making of her life."

"I'm not, you know, so fond of my own opinion that I wish to drag you over to it; I only want to put you in possession of the facts."

"Deep in her soul—it was the deepest thing there—lay a belief that if a certain light should dawn, she could give herself completely."

"He would expect her to most completely be a part of his own-ness, as if she were an vessel shaped to hold his ideas."

"There is nothing so un-American as a general view."

"Blood calls for blood, and the trail of the assegai goes ever onward until the hand that grasps it is cold in the grave."

"A man may lose his cattle, he may lose his wives, he may even lose his honor in the dust, but if he keeps his courage, the sun will rise for him upon another day."

"Architecture is the great book of humanity, the chief expression of man in his various stages of development."

"The book will kill the edifice; printing will kill architecture."

"Notre Dame is still, no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice, but it is no longer the same pile which rose in the pristine majesty of its youth."

"In this majestic pile, every stone is a page in the history of the Middle Ages, recording the faith, the aspirations, and the fears of our ancestors."