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.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Patriotism ruins history.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.