“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
Inspirational“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
Intelligence“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
Inspirational“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
God“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
Great“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
Men“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Faith“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
Intelligence“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.”
God“There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
Love“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Education“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
Art“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
Architecture“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Power“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
Men“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
Love“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”
Great“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Music“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
Happiness“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
Truth“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
God“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
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