To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.