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

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

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

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

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Ideas are the roots of creation.