"What is uttered from the heart alone,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.”

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”

“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.”

“My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.”

“To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.”

“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”

“A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.”

“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”

“I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”