Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Love is the only future God offers.

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.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.