I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

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This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.