Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

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.