Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.