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

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.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.