What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.
Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.
Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.
In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.
Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.