He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Architecture is crystallized music.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.