Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.