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

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

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

Ideas are the roots of creation.

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

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

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.