I call architecture frozen music.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking.
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.
Patriotism ruins history.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Association with women is the basis of good manners.
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
What matters in art is not thinking but making.
Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law.
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
