If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

If the race is good, so is the place.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.