Ideas are the roots of creation.

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

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.

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.

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

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.