“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.” — Montesquieu

“No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.” — John Adams

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius; in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede — not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won’t count up to fourteen.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” — Willa Cather

“He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters.” — James I

“The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.” — Montaigne

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.” — Edith Wharton