He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

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.

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.