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.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.