The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.