When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.