No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Morality does not depend on religion.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

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

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.