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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.