Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

No day is without its innocent hope.

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.