Live dangerously and you live right.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.