The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. The Canterville Ghost
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle. Seagull
Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Dombey and Son
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