Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

One lives but once in the world.

Writing is busy idleness.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.