People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

A world without love would be no world.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.