Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

Life is too short to waste.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.