Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Too often we forget that genius ... Depends upon the data within its reach, that archimedes could not have devised edison's inventions.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
