If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Architecture is crystallized music.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.