"All architecture is what you do to..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?”

“And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.”

“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”

“The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.”

“All perception is colored by emotion.”

“It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.”

“For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.”

“Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?”

“I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.”