How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?