The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.