Architecture Quote by Herman Melville

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from…

— Herman Melville

“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue…

— Georges Rodenbach

“You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be either a…

— Éliphas Lévi

“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!”

— Cornelia Funke

“Sir, there’s a tower of fire in me Binding me with terrible strength The whole of my mortal length And splitting brave the skull’s…

— Jose Garcia Villa

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

“Since God has given it such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to…

— Teresa of Ávila

“And suddenly, in the middle of the central nave, I realize something very important: the cathedral is me, it is all of us. We…

— Paulo Coelho

“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We…

— Okakura Kakuzo

“You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed…

— John Steinbeck

“The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my…

— Susan Howatch

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone momuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

— Pericles