[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

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

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

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.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!