Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

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.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

The room within is the great fact about the building.