An idea is salvation by imagination.

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.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Nothing ever goes away.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.