No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

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.