To Build A City Where It Is

To Build A City Where It Is Impossible To Build A City Is Madness In Itself, But To Build There One Of The Most Elegant And Grandest Of Cities Is The Madness Of Genius.

Every Man Who Has Lived For Fifty Years Has Buried A Whole World Or Even Two; He Has Grown Used To Its Disappearance And Accustomed To The New Scenery Of Another Act: But Suddenly The Names And Faces Of A Time Long Dead Appear More And More Often On His Way, Calling Up Series Of Shades And Pictures Kept Somewhere, "just In Case," In The Endless Catacombs Of The Memory, Making Him Smile Or Sigh, And Sometimes Almost Weep.

The Liberty Of The Individual Is The Greatest Thing Of All, It Is On This And This Alone That The True Will Of The People Can Develop.

A Generation Which Has Passed Through The Shop Has Absorbed Standards And Ambitions Which Are Not Of Those Of Spaciousness, And Cannot Get Away From Them. Everything With Them Is Done As Though For Sale, And They Naturally Have In View The Greatest Possible Benefit, Profit And That End Of The Stuff That Will Make The Best Show.

You Can No More Bridle Passions With Logic Than You Can Justify Them In The Law Courts. Passions Are Facts And Not Dogmas.