A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.