Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Columbus gave the world another world.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.