There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.