The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.