Architects cannot teach nature anything.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.