I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Originality provokes originality.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.