Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

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.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others