Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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