Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.