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

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

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

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

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.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.