I call architecture frozen music.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

I will be lord over myself.