We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - Ernest Dimnet

You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. We also forget that genius is not genius all the time, although it is superior all the time.