You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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.