Ideas are the root of creation.

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

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

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.

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

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.