Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

I call architecture frozen music.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.