Architecture is crystallized music.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

In art, the best is good enough.