There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed