So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.