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.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

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.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.