The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.