We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

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

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

One lives but once in the world.