When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

I call architecture frozen music.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.