I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.