A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.