We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

The best thing in life aren't things.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.