I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.