The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Memory feeds imagination.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.