No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

There was no estate open for him (Fahd) and normally it would be in surrogate court.