Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.