When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

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

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

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