Chairs Quote by George Weigel

“Under this spell we were really startled by being suddenly confronted by a priestly form. A second glance revealed, however, only a wax figure…

— Helen Josephine Sanborn

“Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in…

— George Eliot

“Within the shade of the portico, a person with folded arms, and eyes directed towards the ground, was pacing behind the pillars the whole…

— Ann Radcliffe

“He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed…

— Daphne Du Maurier

“In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole…

— Herman Melville

“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more, and as…

— W.G. Sebald

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

“The man possessed a communal strength of body and soul, coupled with endless compassion and a desire to help the less fortunate of mind…

— Mary Campisi

“One of Their Gods When one of them passed through the forum of Seleucia just as night began to fall, young, tall, perfect in…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so…

— Charles Dickens

“A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable…

— Emily Dickinson

“It was difficult to image quite where this gentleman [a statue] could have come from: he was a little too cheerful for a saint…

— Susanna Clarke