Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.