Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
Buildings have been made because of man.
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.