There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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.