Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

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.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

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

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.

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.