Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.