We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.