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

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

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

Ideas are the root of creation.

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.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.