It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

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.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.