Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.