I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.