"Things are in the saddle. And ride..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints”

“The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.”

“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.”

“A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.”

“You are the honoured guest,Do not weep like a beggarFor pieces of the world.”

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”

“The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.”

“Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.”

“A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.”