If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.