The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

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.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.