There are things stronger than the strongest man.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry