Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.