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

Ideas are the root of creation.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

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