If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.