At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.