Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.