Architecture is crystallized music.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.