Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.