Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.