A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.