Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.