Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?