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

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

I call architecture frozen music.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.