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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.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.