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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.