It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Either move or be moved.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.