Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.