Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

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

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.

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

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

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.