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

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.