“Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.”

“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not me...”

“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”

“Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent,...”

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”

“By the time we've made it, we've had it.”

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”