The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The black kids are more likely to live in segregated neighborhoods. They're influenced by styles and habits and patterns of behavior that have racial restricti…

The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which mu…

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we …