Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

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

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

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.

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.