No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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.