We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.