Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.