When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.