Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
French Cardinal and Statesman
"God speaks to our hearts through the voice of remorse."
"By dint of art, the art itself is banned."
"Naturalness is the seal of genius."
"The hallowed love of country."
"To-day we only smile, we laugh no more, and e'en our very pleasures seem to bore."
"Unhappy he who fears the deep recesses of his soul to scan! The heart that from itself would hide fears an unfriendly critic's ban."
"What gloomy student of old Greece, as on her charms his gaze reposes, would choose the lilies of Lucrece, or virtue's garland colourless, in place of passion's roses?"