There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.