There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

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.