If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.