Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

A man should give us a sense of mass.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.