They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!