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.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

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