Wisdom is found only in truth.

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.