There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

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

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.