Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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.
Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.