The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.