Originality provokes originality.

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.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.