Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.