Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.