Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.