The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

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.

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

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

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.