Ernest DimnetThinkers

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

The Book is like a landscape, a state of consciousness varying with readers.

The Idea is the root of creation.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Meditation is a contented but perfectly conscious dwelling of the mind on something likely to elevate our life.

Prejudice subsists in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Reading is to most people: an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.

School is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.