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.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

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