Order and system are nobler things than power.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.