Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

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.