Silence in architecture is as powerful as sound.

"In the silence of reading, the loudest voices of humanity can be heard."

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.