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.
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.