Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

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

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

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.