Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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 ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
