The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.