The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

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.

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

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