Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.