Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

Architecture is crystallized music.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it