The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.