It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can

It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Author: John Ruskin

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.