Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
The breath of the mind is attention.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.