Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.