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

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

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.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'