The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

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

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.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!