Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Architecture is crystallized music.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.