Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else.

Thus it is that in the same family, in the same circumstances, one man rears a stately edifice, while his brother, vacillating and incompetent, lives for ever amid ruins: the block of granite, which was an obstacle on the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone on the pathway of the strong."-- G.

H.Lewes, LIFE OF GOETHE.] [Footnote 109: Introduction to 'The Principal Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H.

the Prince Consort' [101862], pp.

39-40.] [Footnote 1010: Among the latest of these was Napoleon "the Great," a man of abounding energy, but destitute of principle.