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.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

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.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.