Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

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 sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.