He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.