Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Architecture is crystallized music.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.