Architecture is crystallized music.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.