To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.