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

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.

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.

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.