John's University library, founded in 1870.
The English Arts & Crafts designer C.F.A. Voysey thought every
fireplace should be crowned by a motto. His own?
Where there is trust there is love.
A generation ago, Christopher Hyland inscribed the following
sentence, meaning "All things are possible," in Latin:
Omniae Quae Fieri Possunt.
It still resides, painted in oil on canvas below crown molding, an
easy method for adding such elements to any room. The room
in this case was a three-story tower containing a freestanding
staircase.
In an ideal global work of performance art, one can imagine
five salient quotes to be placed on buildings in Tokyo, Beijing,
New Delhi, Kuwait, Moscow, Amsterdam and New York.
Simultaneously, artisans would install these quotes, testimony
to a global aspiration for understanding. My own choices?
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde
Rain over the hill darkens with the clouds. -Chou En Lai
The wise woman builds up her house; the foolish tears it down
with her own hands.-Proverbs
Our taste is greater than our creative power.-Nietzsche
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