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

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.