All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

The last act crowns the play.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.