There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

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.

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.