The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

Architecture is the work of nations

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.