What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

All perishable is but an allegory.

I call architecture frozen music.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.