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.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.