The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

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.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.