The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

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

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

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

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.