A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.