Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

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