Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.