There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.