Life, for me, is living among my friends.

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.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.