The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts.

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

The past is a foreign country, but we are all its citizens.

建筑的本质在于其创造能够激发和提升人类精神的空间的能力。