It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility