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.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

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

Ideas are the root of creation.

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

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