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.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

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

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

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.