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.
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
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.