The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

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.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.