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

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

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.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

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.

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