[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!
don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.