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

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

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