Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

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.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.