The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.