To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

Our distrust is very expensive.