No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.