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

Ideas are the root of creation.

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

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

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.

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

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