As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.