To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.
Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last ressort.
