When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

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.