Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

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

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.