Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.