The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

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.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

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?

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.