When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.