War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

What we call results are beginnings.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.