Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope. Lionel Tiger
…the first cathedral you see remains with you forever as the cathedral of the world. M E W Sherwood
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Robert Louis Stevenson
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Sinclair Lewis
Inside, the cathedral is a Gothic forest dappled in violet twilight and vast with quiet. Wendy Insinger
I unhesitatingly gave Durham my vote for best cathedral on planet Earth. Bill Bryson