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.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

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

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

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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.

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.