Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

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.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.