We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.