To love beauty is to see light.

Progress is the life-style of man.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.