We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.