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.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.