Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Architecture is crystallized music.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.