The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

I call architecture frozen music.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.