The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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.