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.

Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

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

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

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