When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action,
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
We shape our buildings and they shape us.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Those who don?t build must burn. It?s as old as history and juvenile delinquence.