Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.