Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.