One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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.

Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.