Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

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.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.