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.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

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

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.