Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.