Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

It is for us to pray, not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire, forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The drying up a single tear has more - Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore

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.

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

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