True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Another story must begin!

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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.