We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.