Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

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.

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

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

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.