The history of mankind is his character.
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
Doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay...
With knowledge grows doubt.
So, lively brisk old fellow, don’t let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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.
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights – all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, – into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.