Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

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.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.