Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Cities produce ferocious men, because they produce corrupt men; the mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

He does not weep who does not see.

Loving is half of believing.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.

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.

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.