I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.