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.

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 root of creation.

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

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

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.