A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

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

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.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?