Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

I call architecture frozen music.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.