Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

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.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.