To love another person is to see the face of God.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

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.