The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Giving is the business of the rich.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.