We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

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

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.