Ideas are the root of creation.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

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

Ideas are the roots of creation.

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.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

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.