After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

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 older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.