'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Prison house for the soul

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.