“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”

“I call architecture frozen music.”

“For in music there is no material to be deducted.”

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”

“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?”

“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.”