It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

In art, the best is good enough.

Architecture is crystallized music.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.