Beauty without expression is boring.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Nature always wears colours of the spirit.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.