The people rate strength before everything.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

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

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

Patriotism corrupts history.