Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

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

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