We are more interested in the capacity of architecture to improve people's lives than in the capacity of architecture to be beautiful.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds， as they result either from the mere situation of the climate and country or from the form of government and of the character of the people， or from those finer principles and morals， which may be called the recommendations of philosophy.

管得最少的政府是最好的政府。