Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.